Sentence examples for intriguing backdrop from inspiring English sources

This is the intriguing backdrop to today's clash of two opposing models of management modernisation.

Take away the ceiling fans and dragon boats from Mr. Bradby's story, and you have a not-so-unusual detective tale stretched across a colorful, intriguing backdrop.

2B Chandos Rd, aviatorbar.co.uk The stripped-back, raw and industrial design of The Urban Standard would provide an intriguing backdrop to any social occasion.

McCoist and Neil Lennon, the Celtic manager, had a touchline spat on full-time which forms an intriguing backdrop to Sunday's match.

Elton John's "Rocket Man" played as Clemens warmed up on a chilly night and the lyrics, "I'm not the man they think I am at home," were an intriguing backdrop.

In the back yard, there are two olive trees - gifts from Mr Bachelet to Mr Matthei and symbols of a friendship that has formed an intriguing backdrop to the current election campaign.

Meanwhile, the stage backdrop was intriguing.

Only media analysts can gauge whether he has a point; for the rest of us, this has proved an intriguing, if sometimes tedious, backdrop to an otherwise routine European fixture.

The backdrop to this intriguing experiment, published in Annals of Internal Medicine this week, is concern and frustration over the discordance between doctors and family members confronted with wrenching decisions about critically ill patients.

Far from bringing us full circle, this unexpected eventuality raises such a large number of intriguing questions about the historical backdrop to the state of flux in which the Q/Mojo power-balance currently finds itself that it's going to take me till next month to answer them all.

Masterful mystery that has it all: superbly wrought characters, including a large quota of obsessive eccentrics; the evocative American Southwest as backdrop; clashing cultures; an intriguing plot that ranges from bubonic plague to poaching eagles to the tensions of a troubled romance to coldly ambitious politicians — not to mention mayhem and murder.